Hi people. I have my own opinions what works and what doesn't. Cast you imagination to buying and placing links for SEO purposes #1 I believe that links from directories are very much devalued #2 Links from bloggs are useless What are you opions and experience on this, and be prepared to support your arguement Kind regards Valley
I have several sites which rank highly (some first) for fairly competitive terms, for which all incoming links are from either blogs or directories - so from my perspective at least one of the two is valuable. It also brings up the question as to what constitutes a blog and a directory. Is any site with an RSS feed a blog? Is a directory that is part of a larger (non-directory) site a directory by your criteria?
Thats a rather wide ranging statement. It depends on the directory or the blog. The SEO and traffic rewards for getting listed at dmoz are incredible as much as I hate to admit it.
There is a clear line between the two A directory is a site that arranges websites in an order, and comprises mainly links, and no more than one link (usually ) to a site A blogg is a chat place such as this, but where third parties can add outside links of their own accord. PM the the site and the main keyowrd if you want and I will run a link programme to find out how valuable the Blogg or directory links are if u want
Yes there are a handfull of good directories, but most directories are utter rubbish. Created just to give backlinks just to make money for webmasters who have no niche or imagination. Take a look in link sales. most links offered are in directories or bloggs. Bloggs on the other hand I feel as though tend to get high PR of the ectual framework of the site but the PR never gets passed on to the individual pages I could be wrong , I don't know But someone must know
Links from directories - useless Links from blogs - not so useless Thing is directories are just linkfarms where as blogs have actual content for search engines to hold on to.
Links from blogs are not worthless. There are a lot of quality sites using WordPress or other similar CMS.
Unless of course its a trusted directory There are many trusted directories out there. I believe it can contribute little value unless originating from comment section. Dont forget. Content is Always 'King'. Always write plenty of content. Anything helpful to others.
Sorry there are no "trusted" directories, the only good directories i know are the ones owned by people who know how to drive good traffic, this is the only reason i submit my links to directories i know will get huge traffic. Blogposts? Well they work more on content boost for example if you are posting about a page that ranks #10 for a keyword a blogpost will bump it up to #8 and between #10 and #50 will be the blog post you bought. So its 30% pr flow and 70% content boost. Ill post an article about this on my blog later.
links are devalued if directories looks link farm - directories that is full of poor links No its not useless google still follow the links from blog that uses nofollow. It can still help you gain backlinks.
OK Maybe will try your blogg. Personally my gut feeeling is that bloggs are not worth a hoot. Done it a few times and the control website had just the same results. This is what is always missing in DP, webmasters etc. A good scientist always has a control
MMM Not doubting whether they form backlinks. Question is whther google devalues thes links as to make then worth zilch. Trouble is DP is so many more directory submitters, owners, bloggers, blogg owners in a ratio of 10 :1 over website owners the forums and opinions tend to get saturated. They give their two pence worth gust to get their 15 dollars
Well basically nothing is worth it unless you know the process of content creation, see all the hoot about blogs is the pinging service, every post is pinged everywhere on the net the second its posted. And to be honest thats what its all about, active content delivery.
is the pinging service, every post is pinged everywhere on the net the second its posted. And to be honest thats what its all about, active content delivery.[/QUOTE] Whats the pinging thing?
Whats the pinging thing?[/quote] The ping function is one of wordpress's highlights, what it does is update search engines with the post that has just been entered.
The ping function is one of wordpress's highlights, what it does is update search engines with the post that has just been entered.[/QUOTE] Ah, is this why bloggs etc do so well on Search sngines then since the content is constantly updated?
So basically if I did a blogg in worlpress them on say Volkswagen transporters, then this as long as there were enough multile posters would do rather well if it has a singlar against the same keyword.
Ah, is this why bloggs etc do so well on Search sngines then since the content is constantly updated?[/quote] Yep. Thats all there is to it. Thats why i'd rather prefer blogs then directories.